A refreshing genre experience that often reminds you how much digital cinematography has improved.

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2018)

Though '28 Days Later... (2002)' uses digital cameras in an undeniably groundbreaking and trendsetting way, watching this 'zombie movie' (even in HD on its Blu-Ray transfer) really just reminds you how far we've come in today's world of super-crisp, high-definition, 'film-competing' digital cinematography. It's often, to an extent, an exercise in resilience, as you sometimes have to squint and strain your way through its most 'SD' of sequences. It's the energetic way that Boyle uses the camera that makes the piece work, though. The influence of the feature is undeniable and even reaches to its fast-moving fiends, for this is the feature that first introduced the world to the 'runner zombie' and, naturally, it's also the one in which the concept is arguably done the best. Its creatures are surprisingly, creepily versatile and viciously relentless, to boot; it isn't hard to see why they were essentially copied across many a film to come, with varying degrees of success. The narrative itself is full of subtext and often pulls back to focus on the too often overlooked, eerily quiet aspects of a near-extinct population. All of this makes for a refreshing genre experience with a phenomenal score that's only really hampered by some dated visuals and a story that only goes so far in being entertaining. 6/10